The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1887-12-22
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for the season.
Jos. cnAMRrRrAIS persistently wears a
single eye glass.
A DuLUTuER has invented combined
skate and rat trap.
BAirlMoHE is the leading market In the
world for ierrnpn.
Usrm Tho elst Of April tho country is TO
be without base bali.
WAsnIS0ToS society will soon begin the
annual exhibition OF decolette.
Az Anarchist at Minneapolis has been
buried In comm with red trimmings.
AsriDlLiors pills sold by pcddlers have
caused many deaths in Franklin County,
Ala.
I'nE keeping OF young alllgators as
household pets is described as new
"craEon
TuEnE arc as many ''old engineers in the
country" as there are Washington's body
sorvants.
IIrSRY GEoNoE has definitely decided
not to be candidate for the Preside ,r7
next year.
MRs. cRoBAR is member OF Saginaw
tMlch.l church, Of which Rev. Mr.. Broad
ax Is pastor
A PiITsnURoH dentist has been sued for
100000 damages for "negiigcncc in pull
Ing tooth.r
FoR tho first time In their lives President
Cleveland eud Rey. DR.. Bnrchard met a
few days ago.
TnEnE has been number OF needed
changes In tho furnishings OF the White
House recently.
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Of bicycles being used by postmcn and
public messengers.
a WESTERN ranchman win use tho barb
wire fence tat surrounds his vast estate
ns telephone line.
1icnioAs is entirely FREQ from state
debt and has surplus OF ts7l7Ss derived
from direct taxation
Jas JuDoE, of Kcnosha, Wis, although
totally blind, ~ Quo Of tho most skiilful
plumbers In tho town.
Az tho present timc In England, John L.
sullivan seems 10 be ms important q person
"a the Prince OF Wales
QuEEs cnmsTIxK, OF SPAIN IL said 10
have voice which would have earned her
fano as prima-ionna.
TnrRr are nine natives OF Ireland, seven
Scotis and two Norwegians in the present
House Of Representatives.
RrssIA IL preparing for the settlement Of
the Bulgarian troubles in The spring, and
expects Austria To respond.
REooKrER snrTn, Of Philadelphia, has
sentenced man TO Ave years imprison-
ment for stealing an umbrella.
KroKpK has a glass eater. He is small
boy, and on wager ate half a lamp chin
noy, and IL didn't Disagree with Tim.
GEHNAS army Number OF troops. 42s,.
ioi; cost, ls,S50,OO0 British army: Mum
bcr Of troops. iqS.0OO; cost, eis,gfl, 900.
The dense forests OF West Virginia are
rapidly disappearing. aud soon the streams
viii be sAriuking In volume and number.
TnEnK Is a movement among physicians
thgSSs.iont tho country to raise funds TO
ercct monument 20 Dr. Benjamin Rush
TnERR Is at last a hopeful prospect for
satisfactory solution OF the Indian problem.
Tho savages arc acquiring the cigarette
habit.
ScoTcn potatoes, with some conslgn-
ments Of tho same vegetable from Ireland,
nro being imported In considerable guam
Utica
TnE proprictors Of tho Monte Carlo
gambling resorts report the annual list OF
suicides In their yearly statement OF diyi-
dends.
BEniIS has Technical High School,
built by that city at cost Of a., SO0, 900,
aud maintained at an annual cost Of
$4,000
STESo0nArmERs are rare on American
newspapers, whereas almost every Eng
lish newspaper writer must bc short
hand adept.
A CONTEST over the will OF ex-vice Pres.
idcnt Wheeler Is about TO begin. The es-
tate amounts 10 $4,000, and there are fifty
contestants.
DAVID DUDLEY FIELD takes exercise at
tho ago OF eighty-two years, by walking
eight milcs every day and riding horseback
for an hour besides.
THE Russian governments is In such pres
sing straights for money that IL viii DO
compelled 70 accept the stringent terms
offered by the French bankers.
A PHfLApELPHfA hunter went over into
Now Jersey rabbit shooting; got ons cot
ton-tail, and was arrested for cunning
without license and fined ESQ.
Two bright New Jersey young women,
dissatisfied with tho money they made
teaching invested $50 In poultry. The first
year their profits were $1,000 the second,
5000.
SAMUEL SPENCER has been elected to sue
coed Robert Garrett as president of the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad Tho new
president will receive salary OF So, 900
per annum.
MINISTERS are so scarce In Idaho that
they havo TO be imported in many cases
whore people wish to getmarried Trains
are stopped that they might bo searched
for ministers.
TIKI longest street railway In the coun-
try Is now In operation between Elizabeth
and Newark, N. j., the round trip being
nearly thirty miles, for which the fare s
twenty cents.
AN OIL City paper suggests that natural
gas bo called petrogen, Prof, Orton, Of
Ohio, admits that new nnme is desira-
Bile, but thinks petrema would be more
scientific torn.
FARMERS In Wiltshire, Eng, have been
obliged by hard times TO reduce the wages
OF their lnborers from one TO two shillings
week, so that now eight shillings week
Is tho usual wage.
bihMAHCh IN tho ouoiooe mai III uot-
many. He remains at his desk nightly till
two o'clock, and oven during his ''vaca.
tom In Kissengen attended TO his affairs
until long after midnight.
AN effort will be mado during this ses-
sion OF Congress- "a. reduce letter postage.
II the cxigencies Of tho service will not
yet permit the reduction OF the two-cent
ratio TO one cent II will be the aim OF tha
rcductionists to at least have drop-letters
sent for one cent.
TnE servant girl question u not so much
Of problem IN Germany as y is in this
country. The worry pretty custom prevails
thorc OF decorating household servants for
long md satisfactory eervicc' One 'union"
Sns within twelve years decorated four
hundred tcrvants, Ho1othlnE Of s'miiaf
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